Monique Chyba, Full Professor

Research

Research
Interests

Monique Chyba's main research area concerns the
development of geometric methods to solve optimal control
problems. One of her central objectives is to understand the
role of singular extremals in optimal strategies for nonlinear
control systems. More specifically, she has been lately
focusing on using differential geometric techniques to exploit
in the time optimal problem the particular structure of the Lie
algebra formed by the vector fields describing a controlled
mechanical system. Her research is oriented towards
applications with a special emphasis on the motion planning
problem for autonomous underwater vehicles.